Golf-cup device



Patented Oct. 16, 1923.-

\ 1,4?,6@3 PATENT OFFICE.

RHESA G. DUBIS, or EAST onnnen,nnw JERSEY.

GOLF-GUI DEVICE.

T0 aZZ whom 2'25 may concern:

Be it knownthat I, RHESA G. DUBOIS, a citizen of the United States, andresident of East Orange, in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey,have invented cer tain new and useful Improvements in Golf- Cup Devices,of which the following is a specification. M

This invention relates to a device used in the outdoor game of golf, and'it consists in certain improvementsin connection with the cup and fiagdevice composingthe marker of a putting green, all of Which;will be morefully described hereinafcer and pointed out in the claims. The purposesof my invention are:.

First. To dispense With the usual pointed flag-staff or pin and Centralsocket for it 'thereby allowing the player to insert the fiag-staifthoughtlessly without the -1 other of findingthe socketinthe bottoin ofthe 011p as he would have to do with'the ordinary flag pin.

Second. To keep the fiag-stafi' upright and threby prevent it fromleaning over against the turf rim of the hole and thereby mutilating theturf and destroying ;thesymmetry of the rimas players and caddies s0often do whenhurriedly replacing the flagstafi or pin. Third.:' T0prevent the caddy, When sighting in the player, from damagng the grassaround the hole by jabbing the point of the pin into the turf.

Fourth. T0 allow the player, after a shower, to bail water out of thehole by siniply lifting the Water out through the medium of thereceptacle onthe end of the flag-stafi and in the same way clear the eupof loose leaves, sand or dirt.-

F ifth. To enable the player to lift his hall out of the cupWithoutstooping, and

Sixth. To allow the flagstafi to stand alone on the green without havingto stab a hole in the latter thereby obviating the necessity of stoopingto lift the removed fiag from a pro1ie positionon the green.

In the accompanying drawings,

Figure 1 represents a side-elevation of my invention wherein the fiagmember is shown in the act of being lifted out of the cup.

Figure 2 a transverse sectional view in whch the fiag-staff' is shown infull limes, an

Figure 3 a top view of the flag-stafi'.

To accomplishthe foregoing advantages Application filed May 28,1919.Serial No. 300,434.

I secre the lower extremity of a flagsta 1 to a telescoping cylindricalcup-shaped member 2 Which fits loosely within a corresponding fiXedcuph3 set in the ground 4: of a putting green 5. Thiscylindrical ortubular member 2 comprises a fiat bottom 6 which rests upon the bottom 7of fixed cup 3 and is provided With a substantially fullwidth upwardlyextending skirt 13. The flagstaff is attachedto the center of the bottom6 of the inner telescoping cup 2 through the medium of an integralextension 8' and nut 9. A shoulder 10 rests on the top of andpassesthrough a conical reinforcenient ll*rising from the bottom 6 ofcup 2. A recess 12 receives the nut 9 so that the latter Will lieflushwith the bot-- interiorvertical wall flush with the interior earthwallor lip 15 of the hole 18, as seen more clearly in Figurel, 9.voidingthe for mation of a bevel Which might create a rim ming action of theball. 16 is any ordinary flag attached to the top of staff 1. A golfball 17 is indicated by dotted limes as lying in thegcupin Fig1ireS2 and3.

Briefly describedthe o1oerationof the device is as follows:

The hole 18 in the puttinggreen 5 is only 43; inches in dian1eter andmust be marked by the fiag such as 16 fiying from the flagstaff 1 sothat the player can accurately lo cate the goal atthe distance fromwhioh the play is to be made. On hilly linksthe flag -is essentialtolocate the position, notonly of thehole, but of the green itself, and ittherefore becomes avery important element;

On approaching, if the ball should drop in the cup or hole and theplayer does not care to stoop over to pick it outof the cup 3, all hehasto do is to lift the flagstaff 1 out with one hand and. remove the bail17 with the other hand. In case the eup should be filled with rain waterthe .lat-' surface is kept s-mooth by dragging a mat over it. Thatoperation is often performed by a laborer twice a day in order to smoothont foot prints and depressions caused by the point of the fiag-staffwhile in the hands of the players and caddies. In dragging the greenaround the hole, the drag brushes sand and gravel into the Cnp andqnickly fille the pin hole in the bottom, and the work of inserting thehand into the cup and diggng out the dirt to open the hole becomes sucha nuisance that green keepers become Careless and neglect it altogether.

The result is that the pin hole stays plugged most of the time, and.players chuck the pin into the cup where it leans over against the lipand bevels the hole and destroys its synr metry. This bevelling of thehole causes rimming and takes away much of the charm of the game.

In the use of my invention the tendency of the flag-staff to lean overagainst the turfe dge or lip 15 of the hole, by reason of Wind orimproper replacing,will be checked by the contact of the skirt 13 withthe inner wall 20 of the fixed cup 3.

The replacing of the fiag may be done with the greatest facility bysimply sliding the fiag cup 2 into the fixed cup 3 quickly withontprecision. And when so placed, the flag-staff cannot tip over sidewiset0 chafe the surrounding turfedge 15. lVhen the flag is out, and Whilethe players are put ting, the broad bottomfi of the cup when coming incontact with the green wilL not injure it,and the preservation of theturf aronnd the cup Will be thus maintained and the necessity offrequently moving the cup from one part of the green to another isobviated.

Although I have described andshown one form of carrying out my inventionit .is obvious that an infinite variety of others might b substitntedwithoiit escaping the main 1 ea.

Having thns described my device what I cl aim as new andkdesire tosecure by LettersPatent is:

1. Ina golf cup flag device, the combination with a lining for the holeof a putting green, of a cylindrically cupshaped mem ber forming a fiagstaff base and which removably fits in and telescopes with said lin- Agolf cup flag device, consisting of the usual cylindrical member adaptedto be sunk below the surface of the green, in combination with aflagbase and fiagstaff, said base eomprising a cylindrical cup closed atthe bottom and open at the top and having a, flagstaff centrallyattached to the bottom Of the cup.

3. A golf cup flag devine, consisting of the usual cylindrical memberadapted to be sunk below the surface of the green, in combination with afiag base and fiag-staff', said base comprising a cylindrical cup closedat the bottom and open at the top and having a flag staff attached toand terminating at the bottom of the cup.

4. A golf cup flag device, consisting of the usual cylindrical memberadapted to be sunk below the surface of the green, in combinacion with afiag staff secured at its loWer terior wall of the hole, in combinationwith a stem portion rising from the central lower portion of the cup.

6. In a: golf hole marker, a cylindrical holelin ing adapted to remainin the ground, in combination with a cylindrical removable cp-membertelescopingvvith the interior of the hole lining, and a flag staffattachment fo1; lifting out the cup member.

In a golf hole marker, a fiag dev1oe comprising an outer cup adapted toline the hole,in combination with an inner removable cup-shaped nre1nberloosely telescoping" with the outer cup and a central fiag staffattachment rising from the bottom of the inner remOvable member.

8. In a golf hole-marker, a flag staff having its lower end centrallyattached to the lo-wer portion of a cylindrical cup which telescopeswith the vertical wall of thehole in the green, and Which is open at thetop to receive a hall, whereby the cup and staff may be lifted bodilytogether out of the hole.

9. In a, golf hole-marker, a flag staff having its lower end held in thelowercentral portion of a cylindrical cup adapted t0 enter a cylindricalhole in the ground, said cup being open atthe top to receive a golfhall, and having a width relative to the hole slightly smaller than thelatter and which permits the cup to slide vertically and frely in andout but.will engage the. interior ver. tical Wall thereof whenever thecup is rocked latterly while within the hole, whereby the staff Will beheld clear of the lipof the hole.

Signed at East Orange, in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey,this 16th day of May, A. D.

RIIESA Gr-. DUBOIS.

